Blog 5 response

I think the Foley video touches on very important key factors that a teacher can use in the class room and that is to create a comfortable space where learners can learn and engage. The pastoral care initiative sounds like a effective method to get learners involve with sharing knowledge. I think we as future teacher have to find ways to help our learners to understand what learning is all about. Ina addition, I think gone are the days where the teacher merely presents learning material and the learner is expected to just sit there and take it all in, without using critical thinking and not making sense out of it all. The 21st century learner wants to relate to what is presented to him/ her, therefore, we as future teachers need to use all pedagogues we have to our disposal, and make it relevant, interesting and exciting. Wills suggest we use methods such as meditation or reflection with our learners, to unearth their own sense of problem solving to challenges they as learners experience. A learner is more likely to learn when he or she is confronted with difficulty and then overcome it than being told what to do in that instance. Furthermore the Vigotsky method of teaching, meaning organising learners in smaller groups, helps in this regard, for it lends the strength of peer interactions among the learners. If a learner can see he/ she is not the only struggling with a specific challenge, he/ she is more likely to share to what it is he/ she is struggling with. This feature changes the dynamic, with regards to teacher- learner dynamic, and allows for group learning and experience. In a sense the class room become the teacher's pedagogy and the learners a extension there of and visa versa. THE CLASS ROOM SHOULD BE SEEN AS A LIVING ORGANISM, WHICH CAN ADAPT AND CHANGE. Learners are more prone to learn if they feel comfortable with the method of teaching, the teacher and their fellow learners. Therefore we as future teachers should be mindful of this fact, and should allow for mediation with our learners to create a space where ideas of knowledge are not stagnant or strict but rather flexible. Knowledge comes in all shapes sizes and if we do not realize this, we may lose out on a opportunity of learning.